Top 10 Bone-Chilling Titanic Facts

Top 10 Titanic facts that will shock you! Enjoy these facts about the Titanic. April 15, 1912. All was calm aboard the RMS Titanic, and most passengers had already turned in for the night. Little did they know that the ship of dreams would become an underwater grave. This is Paul DuVall, and you’re watching Top 10 Bone-Chilling Titanic Facts. Now here are 10 facts about the Titanic.

Number 10. Fred Fleet, one of the Titanic survivors, believed the Titanic could have completely avoided the iceberg had the binoculars been used instead of stowed away in an officer’s locker.
Number 9. Ramon Artagaveytia survived the sinking of the ship America in 1871. He overcame his fear of sailing and decided to sail on the Titanic. According to Ramon, it was the new system of communication, the wireless telegraph that alleviated his fear. After all, the Titanic had the ability to communicate instantly with the world. Unfortunately, he was found among the dead a week after the disaster.
Number 8. After the Titanic sank, families of the ship’s band members had quite a difficult time collecting death benefits. The White Star Line wouldn’t pay because the band members were contracted employees. The talent agency wouldn’t pay because they were listed as Second Class Passengers, and they felt the Cruise Line should pay. In fact, some of the family members received a bill from the talent agency for the uniform the musicians were forced to buy as members of the Titanic band!
Number 7. The morning before the disaster, a lifeboat drill was scheduled for the crew to prepare themselves for what they hoped would be an emergency situation they’d never encounter. However, the drill was inexplicably canceled by Captain Edward John Smith himself. It is still not known exactly why he decided to call off the lifeboat drill.
Number 6. One ship, the Californian, was even closer to the Titanic than the Carpathia was. The Californian saw the flares sent up from the Titanic. Regrettably, the captain of the Californian chose to ignore the distress signals, and the ship’s wireless operator had already gone to bed. Had the Californian chosen to investigate the flares, many more lives could have been saved.
Number 5. Violet Constance Jessop was an ocean liner stewardess and nurse who survived the accident aboard the Olympic, the sinking of the Titanic, and the sinking of the Britannic when it hit an underwater mine. Interestingly, all three of these ships were sister ships, and all three encountered major disasters in the same decade. According to Violet, the one thing she missed most immediately following the Titanic disaster was her toothbrush.
Number 4. While conditions on the Titanic were quite lavish for the rich, they were not so nice for the poor. The 700 third-class, or steerage passengers as they were also called, only had two bathrooms, and four passengers were assigned to a room. Despite this, the Titanic’s third-class accommodations were actually nicer than the typical living conditions that the third-class passengers were accustomed to at home. The cabins had running water and electricity, and the steerage passengers were provided with meals.
Number 3. Dorothy Gibson, an American movie star, was undoubtedly one of the more famous passengers on the Titanic and was also one of the survivors. One month after the disaster, Dorothy starred in a silent film called Saved from the Titanic, which was based on her experiences on the night the Titanic sank. She even wore the same clothes she had worn aboard the Titanic that night – a white silk evening dress topped with a cardigan and polo coat.
Number 2. Unfortunately, because the Titanic is over 2 miles down, it is very difficult or impossible to preserve. Due to rust and iron eating bacteria, the wreck of the Titanic will be destroyed within 20 years and will soon be nothing more than a rust stain at the bottom of the Atlantic. On the positive side, more of the interior will become accessible as the outer structure disappears. This will allow researchers to gather more information on the ship before it is completely obliterated.
Number 1. Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, a novel was written by Morgan Robertson called Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan. The details of this fictitious ship named Titan were uncannily similar to the Titanic. Triple screw propellers – check. Practically unsinkable – check. Shortage of lifeboats – check. Struck an iceberg on the starboard side on an April night in the North Atlantic 400 nautical miles from Newfoundland – check, check. Sank with more than half of the passengers drowning. Checkmate.
What would your final words have been if you sank with the Titanic? Dive down to the comments section and let me know.

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[jsams]

The girl that survived 3 sinking ships when the titanic sank were, “ ahhh shit here we go again.”

[jccoolidge]

My grandfather survived the sinking -- he was 12 years old at the time, and said the one thing about that night he could never shake were the terrified screams of those in the water after the ship went down. Talk about bone-chilling.

My grandfather, his mom and their maid all got off the ship fairly early on. His father stayed behind but eventually made it into a lifeboat, and everyone was reunited on the Carpathia.

He died in 1991 at the age of 91. I was in my mid-20s when he died, so I was fortunate to have been able to talk to him over the years about the sinking.

Aside from the 8 or 9 hours when he didn't know if his dad was alive or dead, he said the screams were easily the most terrifying thing about that night. The boat he was on was well away from the ship by the time it went down, but sound carries remarkably well over a still ocean, and he said he could hear the screams of the hundreds of people still in the water after the ship disappeared as if they were just a few feet away.

Most of those in the water must have known they only had a few minutes before hypothermia -- followed shortly by coma, then death -- would set in. As he described it, they were screaming panicked, high-pitched screams of terror -- not "movie" screams or those of someone pranked on Halloween. These were truly life-threatening, death-realizing screams. The kind you hear every so often on shows like "Cops" or "The First 48" -- the kind made by real people who just found out their son or daughter had been killed. Or those from 911 calls -- like those made during 9/11 -- from people who realized they were likely going to die and were pleading for help.

That was what haunted him the most from that night. He had trouble sleeping for years after the sinking. The nightmares finally subsided when he was in his early 20s, but he never fully got over the terror he felt from those terrified people in the water -- and the certainty that most of them not only died, but did so knowing full well they were going to die.

The experience changed the course of his life, as I'm sure it did for everyone who lived through it, to one extent or another. Up until then he was clueless about how fortunate he was. His family wasn't Rockefeller or Vanderbilt rich by any means, but his father was a banker and made a very good living. After the sinking, he realized not only how lucky he was to be alive, but also how lucky he and his family were to have everything they needed, and then some. His father wanted him to become a banker like himself, and he probably would have were it not for the experiences of that one night 107 years ago. He explained that after the Titanic, he began to think more and more about those less fortunate than he, and how he was in a position to help them. So instead of going into banking, he did what many would consider just the opposite. He went to divinity school after college and became an Episcopal minister.

The sinking of the Titanic was a tragedy in no uncertain terms. But it's also true that some good came out of the disaster, including the way it changed my grandfather's perspective on life -- and how to spend it.

[-strawberrycloroxbleach-re]

2 more intresting facts:
1) A woman wasn't allowed to bring her dog on the lifeboats so she stayed on the ship. They found her dead and her dead dog in her arms in the cold water. Such a sad fact but that's what you call love.
2) All the power crew sacrificed their lives just to keep the power on so people could get to a life boat. ALL died just to save others. That's some bravery and heroism

[willowiscool]

over 1, 500 people dying from drowning, hypothermia, etc. :

violet: “MY TOOTHBRUSH”

[alinabishop]

I think the most emotional thing that happened that night, was the people who kept playing music while the Titanic sank.

[booksaremysociallife]

Sis really survived three ship sinkings and was traumatized by... the loss of her toothbrush? Iconic.

[RyanRod]

Most of them didn't die from drowning, they died from hypothermia

[zzskyninjazz]

Imagine getting over your fear of the ocean then getting killed by drowning

[cesaru]

ME: Bones, what're you doing?
BONES: Chillin'.

[caroline]

That one girl needed to stop going on ships she was really bad luck

[memesfordays]

Californian Captain: **sees Emergency flares**


ight imma head out

[maryashley]

The book one is honestly the most chilling one.

[nasspaceflight]

Titanic : *launch distress rocket

Californian : that ship is having a mad party!

[pamellefson]

My last words would be "This is a serious case of false advertisement"

[Lightning-lvbx]

I can’t stop thinking about the Titanic crew member who got his leg caught in the door of one of the ship’s watertight compartment doors and was stuck in the boiler room for the entirety of the sinking. I can’t imagine a more painful and horrifying way to die.

[lydiarodriguez]

Final words: buy a ticket to titanic they said it'll be fun they said

[dnze]

They said “not even God could sink this ship” and god said “challenge accepted” lmao

[ObservantDog]

This ship is unsinkable!

Final words: "Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, we have acheived the impossible."

[sophiasharma]

is no one talking about how sad it will be when there are no remains left of the titanic in a few years??

edit: how did this get so many likes??

[LathropLdST]

"Sail they said. It will be fun they said."